Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you fingertip access ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock ...

For Linux users, the command line is a celebrated part of our entire experience. Unlike other popular operating systems, where the command line is a scary proposition for all but the most experienced ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...

Hello,<BR><BR><BR>I am trying to learn shell scripting and am <BR>presently writing some simple scripts I want<BR>to write a script that will check each directory<BR>to see if a file of a certain name ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs on ...

After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. PowerShell Core is built on the .NET Framework. It's a task-based command-line ...

Let's examine the challenges of running Windows-dependent PowerShell scripts from Linux and compares three practical approaches -- dual booting, WinBoat and Windows Server RemoteApp -- to maintaining ...